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Content Area: Health	Grade Level: Middle Level (6-8)
Topic: Reading Nutrition Labels

Class Composition

Age Range: 11-13
School Type: Not Specified
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Concept: Liquid Calories

Key Ideas:

1. Nutrition labels measure nutritional content of food in grams.

2. One gram of sugar is the equivalent of a quarter teaspoon.

3. The recommended daily amount of sugar is about 10 teaspoons or 40 grams.

4. A 20 oz. bottle of soda is the equivalent of four serving sizes.

5. A single serving size of most sodas equals or exceeds the equivalent of the ADA's entire daily recommended amount of sugar.

6. The sugar in soft drinks provides calories that count toward the ADA's recommended daily amount of 2000 calories.

Error Patterns:

1. Children may not find a gram is a meaningful unit of measure.

2. Children and adolescents have difficulty believing calories consumed in liquid form actually "count."

3. Children may think that a 20 oz. bottle of soda is equal to a 'serving size' because it's one bottle.

4. Children may not read labels to recognize how many serving sizes are in one larger sized bottle of soda.

Response Strategies:

See the interactive game:

Do You Know How Much Sugar is in Your Soft Drink?

Interactive Representation:

Do You Know How Much Sugar is in Your Soft Drink?

References and Resources:

Lytle, L. A., Eldridge, A. L., Kotz, K., Piper, J., Williams, S., & Kalina, B. (1997). Children's interpretation of nutrition messages. Journal of Nutrition Education, 29, 128-136.

Manufacturers' labels

Submitted: 6/13/2003 11:32:26 AM
Document ID: 19

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